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Pilgrim to audit 21 Australian privacy policies

By Paris Cowan

Privacy commissioner shifts focus to compliance.

Lenovo caught pre-installing adware on laptops

By Doug Drinkwater, Staff Writer

Superfish hijacks TLS/SSL encryption.

Unpatched Cisco ASA firewalls targeted by hackers

By Juha Saarinen

Attack makes permanent changes.

Apple poaching auto engineers to build battery division

By Staff Writer

Battery developer files lawsuit.

Supernap's $1bn bet on Reno

By Staff Writer

Nevada facility larger than all Australia's co-lo combined.

 

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Feds launch whole-of-govt cloud panel

NSA hiding spyware in hard drives

 

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NSA_PR

NSA Public Relations

@NSA_PR

Our friends at Lenovo have extended their President's Day sale! Use coupon code "superfish" at checkout to get free shipping!

 

nicklockwood

Nick Lockwood

@nicklockwood

I bet the NSA feels pretty silly that they could've just paid OEMs to let them pre-install spyware. Would've been a lot cheaper than Prism.

 

kennwhite

Kenn White

@kennwhite

This is a problem. #superfish http://t.co/jKDfSo99ZR

 

Erica_Fensom

Erica Fensom

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"How News Corp's CIO tackled skills in his race to the #cloud"- reskilling & training is key http://t.co/m94KQzF6gB via @itnews_au

 

susan_m

Susan Moore

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There will not be linear careers [in IT] anymore, says Gartner's @BardPapegaaij in @iTnews_au http://t.co/0NT1mWCivz #CIO #jobs

 

BOM_Qld

BOM Queensland

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Apologies for some delays in warnings hitting our website this afternoon. Our IT team is on the case and fixes are happening now.

 
 
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